“Marriage is a desperate thing.”

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”

“Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous.”

“Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.”

“Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.”

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”